COMPOUND: ἀγελείη, -ης
CATEGORIZATION: N/A [V+N+Suf]
MEANING: ‘driver of spoil, the foranger’
ETYMOLOGY: verbal root ἀγ- (ἄγω) ‘lead, carry, bring’+ -ε- + noun root λει- (λεία, -ας) ‘booty’+ noun suf. (Ion.) -η, -ης
OCCURRENCE: Il. VI, 279; XV, 213; Od. XIII, 359
CASE/GENDER/NUMBER: nom. f. sg., gen. sg.
HEADEDNESS: exocentric
CLASSIFICATION: subordinate (V-argument) – tatpuruṣa (V-governing)
NOTES: linking element -ε-; epith. of Athena